. . . . I come to the consideration of positive proofs required by
the Spiritualists from us to demonstrate to them the actual existence of our
Masters. We can offer them no better one than the fact of some of us (the writer
included) having lived long years with them. . . .

Yes; I most emphatically declare that the holy Sages of the snowy range --- the
Blessed Himalayan Mahatmas --- do exist, and Guru Deva Koot Hoomi has this one
point in common with his presumptuous critics of the West, that he is as much a living man
as they. I have lived with Him; and some of us, Chelas, whose names from time
to time have appeared in your journal, still live under their protection and in their
abodes. I, the writer, am one of the privileged.